Doves Plot North American Dates

It's always a trip to see people who command huge audiences overseas cram their arena-pleasing live shows into American clubs less than half the size of the venues they play in their native lands. When the British epic-rock journeymen Doves return to North America this May, the venues they play won't be tiny by any stretch. The Vic Theatre, Terminal 5, and the 9:30 Club can all cram a lot of people in. But they're also the only band I've ever seen mount a gigantic LCD screen onto the 9:30 Club stage, and their full-bore guitar soar sounded way, way too big for the building.

As we reported in January, the band will soon release Kingdom of Rust, their first album since 2005. EMI will release the album on April 6 in the UK, and it'll be out the next day in the U.S. via Astralwerks. To mark the occasion, they'll once again jam that outsized show into American venues that can barely contain it. If and when they dust off the Sub Sub rave classic "Ain't No Love (Ain't No Use)", get ready to wish you were at a gigantic rain-soaked festival somewhere.